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LP Limit Issues

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SarahU
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9/3/2010 7:26 PM
    We are having some limit issues in LP that I am hoping someone else has experienced. Our policy is an earn as you go plan, so accrual moves to available with each pay cycle, this time can also be used as soon as it is moved to available. There is a limit on the amount of time that can be accured in a plan year based on tenure.

    My issue is that we set this up with an ongoing balance limit, which we have now found out limits on the available not the accrual. So, I have set up an annual accrual limit, which appears to work until the employee transfers to another group, because LP80 or LP180 only transfers the balance not anything else. The employee will start accruing again even if they have hit their limit.

    Lawson support was not help on this and told me to post it to the community. I am suddenly remembering the LP session at CUE where it was said the LP could handle any policy! hehehe

    So I am now manually adjusting employees each payroll to keep them from hitting their limit (not fun). Any insight is greatly appreciated.
    Jodi Kruesel
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    9/3/2010 7:55 PM
      Sarah,

      We have been using Lawson and LP since April of 2006 so I will do my best to help. Our plans are set up to accrue on a month basis (not per payroll like you) with an ongoing balance limit that is based on years of service. Each month, LP140 is ran to give accruals, as accruals are given they are moved to available and employees are able to use the time. For example, if you have been employed for 25 years the maximum vacation balance allowed is 35 days at any given time. So, each month when the accruals are calculated the system will attempt to give the employee 2.5 days of vacation. If it can give the EE 2.5 days without putting them over the 35 maximum, great. If it can't, it will only give them the amount that brings them up to 35 and the remainder is lost. You mention LP80 and LP180. Do the plans that the EE is transferring from and to both have limits set up?
      SarahU
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      9/3/2010 8:20 PM
        My issue is that our policy allows then to accrue 80 hours in 1 plan year. So, if they hit the 80 I want the accrual to stop. For example: Employee has accrued 80 hours and has used 8 leaving a balance of 72, because the balance is 72 it will allow it to continue to accrue. In our policy we want it to stop.
        For LP80, yes both plans have the same rule set up.
        Margie Gyurisin
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        9/3/2010 8:41 PM
          I am pretty certain I know exactly what you mean. We have that issue. I spoke to someone at CUE last year and I have entered an enhancement request. I developed a Crystal Report that our payroll people use when doing those types of transfers so they adjust the annual accrual amount one time at the time of transfer. I will try to look through my notes next week and get back to you on how we are handling it. Depending on how you set the parameters on your LP80/LP180 it will either allow them to continue to accrue or stop accruing too soon.
          Jimmy Chiu
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          9/4/2010 1:28 AM
            I could think of a non-traditional workaround to your problem but it does require some manual work. Each payroll do a script to see who hit the 80 hours ceiling. Let say you have PLAN A with 80 hours limit. For those that hit 80 hours, move them to a new PLAN_A_80 with no accrual. Would that work?